The average visitor is not going to take the time to read everything you have written, they will glance over it. It is important to take this into account when laying out your content, taking care to make the important information easy to notice and pop out.

I’ve noticed recently that many of the techniques used by top designers are actually quite simple. It’s how these simple elements are pieced together that makes a design brilliant. Today we’ll be looking at the first one of these highly effective, yet strikingly simple design methods with the use of CSS borders.